On Dear Science with AUT’s Marcus Jones we have a coronavirus update, a brightening star and a genome study about rats in New York.

And Lillian has a (lengthy) piece on Iran and US relations. Now this was something that was all happening at the start of this year (back when the newsroom was still closed for the break) and we have touched on it a little since we’ve been back but Lillian thought she'd conduct a very in depth interview on the matter and go a bit more into the history of the two countries. This is fairly timely with the Iranian elections as well as the spread of the coronavirus there.